Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein - Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Britten's Owen Wingrave
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, pianist Gabriela Montero. Show more
Donald Macleod traces the impact of Beach’s marriage on her career as a composer and pianist. Show more
Today in the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend from Saffron Hall, Mark Simpson presents homages by Kurtag and himself, plus the Navarra String Quartet play Janacek's 'Kreutzer' Sonata. Show more
The Verbier Festival Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, perform Berg's Violin Concerto, with Leonidas Kavakos, and Mahler's Symphony No 4, with soprano Ying Fang. Show more
An archive recording from Hereford Cathedral with the Choir of the 1990 Royal School of Church Music Summer Course (first broadcast 29 August 1990). Show more
New Generation Artists
Misha Mullov-Abbado and friends and Mozart from the Arod Quartet
31 minutes on BBC Radio 3
New Generation Artists: Misha Mullov-Abbado is joined by friends in takes on music from South America and the Arod Quartet plays Mozart. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news, including performances from pianist Francesco Piemontesi and the Notos Piano Quartet. Show more
Music to celebrate Maytime - a mix of spring and summer, three cuckoos, a nightingale, a dash of melancholy and an 'obby 'oss to follow. Show more
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Philharmonia in an all-Russian programme at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Presented by Martin Handley. Show more
Free Thinking
The Spirit of a Place: A Free Thinking Royal Society of Literature Discussion.
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Alan Johnson, Pascale Petit, Hisham Matar and Peter Pomerantsev - former winners of the RSL Ondaatje Prize - join Eleanor Barraclough and an audience at the British Library. Show more
Continuing his imaginary correspondences with the world's great writers, Ian Sansom is in the gutter looking at the stars again, as he writes to Oscar Wilde. Show more
Nick Luscombe tickles your ear drums with a mixtape curated by Stephen O'Malley from drone metal band Sunn 0))). Show more
Catriona Young presents Brahms's Symphonies No 1 in C Minor and No 2 in D performed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Show more